Welcome to vintagesusie & wings! I am an Artist and a Dreamer, a Lover of Vintage and Sweet Reminders of the Past. This is my JOURNEY...to EXPLORE, DISCOVER and DREAM. To Embrace My PASSION, Trust my Heart and ALWAYS Follow My BLISS.

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Monday, May 2, 2011

How do I thank my friends for all their love & support during this past week?

How can they ever know how much each & every one of their comments meant to me or how many times over the course of the week, I came back here to read them

& gain strength from their thoughts & prayers?

It meant EVERYTHING to me!

Yesterday, was my grandson Kai's 6th birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese.

If you've never been to a Chuck-E-Cheese before, it's like a nightclub for kids, really!

It's kind of dark inside like a nightclub & instead of getting high on booze,

they just run around & get high on cake & candy & fun rides...Kai LOVES it!

Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny & warm spring day that put a smile on my face from the moment I woke up. As Robert & I started our drive to the party, I couldn't help but be touched by God's greater plans. I said to him, "Isn't it amazing that my brother died on Monday & it's Kai's 6th birthday on Sunday. In the course of a single week, I have felt some of my greatest sorrows along with some of my greatest joys."

That is truly the Beauty of Life.

The 'Circle of Life' keeps spinning whether we'd like it to or not.

As one life comes to an end, another life is just beginning &

I believe that is part of God's greater plan.

For me, it is a concrete symbol of Hope.

The Hope that life goes on,

the Hope that joy goes on,

the Hope of a renewal of Life.

On Monday I was crying...

& on Sunday I was laughing.

God is so much smarter then me!

He can see the whole entire picture, while I can only see the tiniest glimpse.

But even through my little window of life, I can see the Circle Turning...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Tomorrow is Easter, a time for rejoicing & remembering & being with the one's we love.
Easter always brings me some of my happiest memories.

{Susie & Johnny, Easter 1962}

As a child, Easter was a time for new dresses, white patent leather Maryjane's, a matching purse, crisp white gloves, a hat that I usually didn't like to wear, hidden baskets & Johnny Jump Ups.

My older brother Johnny & I {Johnny & Susie, it doesn't get any more 50's then that} would dress-up in our fancy new clothes, have our picture taken on the front porch, jump into the back seat of our family car & head off to Belmont Height's United Methodist Church in Long Beach, where we'd spend the morning at Sunday School.

{at Mission San Juan Capistrano 1963}

My most nostalgic Easter memories are of how excited I was to go to Sunday School on that particular morning. When we got there, we'd all be given crayons & little paper cups to decorate with bunnies or eggs or flowers. We would then be given some soil that we would carefully add to our cups trying very hard not to get any on our new clothes. Then each child was given their own tiny, Johnny Jump Up to plant ever so tenderly into their cup.

{I couldn't wait for my Mommy to get her McCall's Magazine so I would get this}
And as the teacher would talk to us of spring & the renewal of life, of our sins & the Gift that our Father had given us in his son, I would look at the bright purple & yellow faces of my pretty flowers & smile. When my parents came to pick us up, I would proudly show them my very own flowers that I had planted myself. I would take my flowers home & keep them next to my bed. I watered them & nurtured them & loved them. Is it silly that I remember that so clearly? I have adored Johnny Jump Ups for as long as I can remember & now you know why!
What are some of your favorite childhood Easter Memories???
I would love for you to tell me...
Sweetest of Hearts,
May your Easter Joy & Chocolate Eggs be Abundant.
Happy Easter!

At the end of one of our busy days of junkin our tour guide, Charlene of 'My Heart's Ease', had mentioned wanting to take us to see this amazing music institute. I think getting back to the fields was primary in every body's mind, but as we started to drive by,

I'm a child of the 50's & all that implies. I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful daughter & a grandson who is the light of my life. I have fallen in love with Digital & Graphic Design & Creating Handmade Jewelry. I have a jewelry line called 'SPOONIN', all made from gorgeous vintage, silverplate spoons.

Belle Armoire Jewelry

Magnolia Pearl

Junk Gypsy's

Lambs & Ivy

Aunt Flossie

Johnny Was

favorite la designer

Vintage Marketplace

rainbow, ca

California Missions

mission san diego alcala

National Park Service

sequoia

Wine Country

temecula, ca

The Del

coronado hotel

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Mark Twain

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.